( 8 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 20, 1920 X SUSPECT 111 MURDER MYSTERY Police Say Revenge One of Motives for Dsnton's Death. WILL DECLARED FORGERY Statement of Denver Woman Im plicated la Case Ridiculed by Dead Man's Friend. I,OS AXGELES, Cal.. Sept. 25. (Special.) The apparent vanishing of James Crowhurst, important witness and suspect In connection with the investigation of the mfcrder of Jacob Charles Denton, and the receipt of a telegram from Mrs. R. C. Peete of Denver, under surveillance in the same connection, were important de velopments today in the mysterious murder case. Crowhurst was located and taken into custody yesterday by Detectives Lyons and Box. He grave them an important etatement and was released under surveillance for further inves tigation. Prior to his release he promised to appear at 10 o'clock today at the district attorney's office for a con sultation with Chief Deputy William Doran, Crowhnrftt Disappears, He did not keep this engagement and long afterward officials of the police department, including officers working on the case, said they had no knowledge of his whereabouts. The telegram from Mrs. Peete was received by Judge Avery, who was named by Denton as the executor of his will. It asked for advice and Judge Avery replied that he could not grive any, but suggested she communi cate with the district attorney's of fice. Mrs. Peete, who, according to the police, "has many explanations to make," previously had said she would come to Los Angeles to aid in the in vestgation. That Denton was in the company of Jirs. Peete in Los Angeles June 2. about the time lie is believed to have been murdered, was indicated today by a statement made by Dwight Dale of the Casa Blanca .hotel, this cit:. Revenjte In Indicated. Dale said his father was a close friend of Denton, who, he said, called at the home of his father the night of June 2. The elder Dale asked him to come into the house and, according to young Dale's statement, Denton re fused, saying Mrs. Peete was wait ing in an automobile. ' Facts alreay unearthed and state ments made by Crowhurst are said by tho police to indicate that bth re venge and robbery were motives for the slaying. . However, although there is strong evidence against two persons the au thorities say they expect additional Important revelations at the inquest early next week which will strengthen the case. Although at a loss to explain Mrs. Poet's possible connection with such a plot, detectives assert that her un usual actions following Denton's dis appearance in June must be explained in greater detail. . The principal apparent discrepancy In tho statements of Mrs. Peete so far developed, concerns her assertion that Denton suffered the loss of his right arm through amputation, made neces sary by a wound. Woman Is Implicated. The body unearthed in the narrow compartment in the Denton home had both arms Intact and examination of the body failed to discloue any marks or Bears. When informed of this Mrs. Peete gave out another statement to the Denver police in which she said she believed Denton had a mysteri ous one-armed double. Failure to discover the slightest indications of violence on the body of the slain man led police detectives to believe that Denton was poisoned. A report on this phase of the slay ing will be available from Dr. Arthur Mass next Tuesday. Mrs. Sarah Denton, first wife of Denton, and her daughter Frances Denton, 16 years old, Denton's heir. are In Los Angeles today, having come nere irorn their home in Phoenix Ariz. Neither the mother nor the daughter nas oeen able to explain any cause lor tne murder. According to Dwight Dale, asso elate of Denton in many mining deals. me references of Mrs. Peete to mysterious Spanish woman as a pos sible common law wife of the slain man "are pure bunk." Dale, Informed the police that he was thoroughly acquainted with Den ton's associates, and these he said, lid not Include any person such as tne one described by Mrs. Peete. "Will Pronounced Forgery. Astounding revelations tending to establish a probable motive for the murder and startling evidence that the will of Jacob C. Denton, wealthy retired mining broker, was a forgery. were aisciosea Dy investigators today Joel N. Denton, a brother of the murdered financier, announced at his home in Lawson, Mo., that $25,000 worth of victory bonds owned by jjenion are missing. This bears out the theory that an amazing plot was hatched to do away with Denton and seize his property. The alleged for gery of the will is supposed to be a part of this plot. Following fast upon the disclosure that the bonds were probably stolen by the slayers came pieces of evi dence which, fitted together, indi cated that Denton's will was a for gery. EDITORS TO CONVENE Southern Washington District Ses sion to Open Tuesday VANCOUVER, Wash., Sept. 25 Special.) A convention of about 20 editors ot the southern Washington district of the Washington State Press association will be held in the chamber of commerce rooms here next Tuesday. A banquet will be served. In this district are Clarke, Cow litz. Skamania. Klickitat and Wah kiakum counties. Of the 25 news papers in this district, seven are in this county. Fred W. Kennedy of the University of Washington will deliver an. ad dress. Discussions of the many prob lems of a newspaper publisher will bo held. Day or Claims Set. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Sept. 25. (Special.) In the superior court to day Judge Back set November 29 as the day when the creditors can pre sent claims and notice be given cred itors to present claims. The suits in question are M. B. Osgood. R. D. Wis wall and W. J. Kinney against the Tteed Engineering company, and H. F. Hayes et al. against the Frigid Engi neering company. FASHION'S VAGARIES CHEAT , ALASKA OF, OLD INDUSTRY Failure of Women to Continue Use of Whalebone for Lining Dresses and Corsets Causes Change in Conditions. - FASHION'S vagaries have robbed Alaska of one of her old indus tries simply because Women have ceased td line their dresses and cor sets with whalebone, according to Charles Brower. fur trader, who ar rived in Portland last week. All the Eskimo catches whale for now, is meat and fuel oil sinoe the departure of the wasp-likev waist .line. Thirty years ago Mr. Brower went north to locate coal mines for a com pany in San Francisco, but failing to get results, set out upon an expe dition of his own, traveling along the northern coast as far as Point Barrow. He was the first white -man to pene trate the coast regions. Returning to Point Hope, he finished the winter, whaling with the natives. "Those were the days of the atone age in Alaska, he declared. our harpoons and lances were of flint and bone and the lines were dried strips of walrus hide, in harpooning a whale, the man would stand in the bow of the boat to cast, and would figure on the boat driving his shot home. As many as a dozen of the craft would surround the whale and harpoon it. Then it was lanced near the jugular vein and bled to death and an old flint knife was used to saw the meat off with." The next year Mr. Brower went on to the Point Barrow trading post of H. Liebes & Co., which is at the most northerly point in Alaska. It is like wise the largest colony Of bfklmos outside of Greenland, having 750 in habitants. There are alio 14 whites. The trader laughed at the sug gestion that the .fcisKlmos lived in snow huts. "Those days have changed, he de clared, "and we must now provide lumber for their dwellings. They used to have great soapstone lamps in which they burned whale blubber for light, but the last of these has been sent to the museums. 1 can remember when there were no steel traps for the fox and polar bear, and when deadfall: were used and even pieces of ice. When after wolverines, the natives used to take a piece of whale bone and curl it up in a ball of fat. Along came the animal, bolted the meat, and within a few minutes the bone had been dislodged, sprung it self and speared the wolverines throat. It was a sure shot; every time the wolf ate the meat he was goner." Trading in furs Mr. Brower appar ently regards as a tame life compared with the days of whaling. Hack in 1897, when he was on his way irora Point Barrow to Icy cape in the steamer Navarch he met with the greatest adventure of his life, an In cident that still stands engraved on his memory as one of the most hor REPUBLICAN CLUB GROWS PLEDGED JIEMBEKSHIP OF 10,- 000 IS. ANNOUNCED. Women Taking Lively Interest in Campaign and Sweeping Victory for Ticket Predicted. The Harding and Coolidge cam paign club yesterday reacnea a pledged memuersnip oi " number set for October 1, in the drive for 15.000 active members. The goal anticipated and the enthusiasm shown at headquarters at the Hotel Portland indicated that success was assured. A 11 members of the club are volun teers. The women serving as officers were mostly active war workers ana prominently known in all vir ac tivities. In addition, many men and women are also working, some of the members as actively engaged in se curing members and spreading the re publican gospel as the officers them selves. So far, according to the otticers or the sterner sex, the women have been more active ano nave snown mine genuine party spirit than tne men, the count of members showing this to be a fact. It is estimated that out of the 10.000 members between six and seven thousand have been secured by the women. Men and women," young and old, from every walk of life, from the working districts, professional cir cles and soldiers of the "last three wars" have Joined, and the slogan is now to vote the republican ticket straight- "Now thai we have more than 10, 000 members." declared Mrs. D. W. Ross, an officer of the club, "we be lieve we are in a position to predict that the republican ticket, headed by Harding. Coolidge .and Stanfield. will be elected from top to .bottom. I have talked with thousands or tnese mem bers myself and there Is no dissension in the ranks, and 1 can say that the 10,000 members are as much in earn est to elect a republican senator ail they are to have a republican presi dent. 'If you want to vote against a republican for senator or representa tive, why not be consistent and vote for Cosr is what we say all the time, and the response la so enthusiastically for all the republicans on our ticket that we predict a great victory in Oregon, all along the line." The club has been complimented by the western headquarters of the na tional committee at San Francisco as leading in memberships in the six western states. Alder Is Fined. $3 0. K. 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In the meantime Brower had made a boat of- polar bear skins streched over a frame and this was taken in charge by the captain and eight men, who also carried fflod and a compass. Theofficer asked Brower to take command of the remainder, 32 men, because he was experienced in traveling over the ice. Twelve hours they tramped along until the water was once more reached, then Brower learned that the captain had gone back to the ship with the skin boat. . 1 ' Fog was closing in a'nd there was nothing to do, but remain there on the ice, though the men were without food. Eight days of traveling passed, and then the party -launched a small cake of ice and attempted ' to drift toward land. Four days later a ship picked up the remnant of the party, 16 men, one of them insane and two with frozen legs, all of them nearly starved after going 12 days without food. It was only by accident that Brower's party was rescued at all, for the crew of the ship thought the black spot on the Ice cake was wal rus. The day after the .departure of the captain, he had gone ashore . in. the skin boat and reported his men all dead. So it happened that no revenue cutter was sent to search for them. "The days we were on that ice were a nightmare," said Mr. Brower. "Some of the men committed suicide and some went crazy. One tramped with us until -the soles were worn Irom his boots .and the flesh was worn from his feet and his bones were exposed. Then he, too, gave up." That sam winter the trading post cared for 360 men taken from a big shipwreck at Point BarYow, For the service given : at this time Brower received the commendation of Pres ident Roosevelt, who sent for him several years later. 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Parkhurst, proprietor of Crater Lake lodge, and. that Mr. Mather's public criticisms nave been the means of keeping thousands of tourists out of the Crater Lake na tional park, is the opinion of Repre sentative C. N. McArthur, who re turned yesterday from southern Ore gon, where he visited Grants Pass, Medford, Klamath Falls and Crater lake. i "I was agreeably surprised at the Crater Lake hotel accommodations," Bald Mr. McArthur last night. "Crater Lake Lodge provides good meals, com fortable rooms and good service and I fail to understand the attitude of Director Mather in his public con demnation of the hotel management. Of course, the hotel does not com pare with, the palatial hostelries of older and better established resorts, but It must be borne in mind that Crater Lake is open for only three months each year and only a concern with unlimited- .backing could main tain an elaborate establishment there. Reward Finally Comes. "Alfred L. 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He was. impressed with the large amount of roadibuilding in progress at various points and with the gen eral development of the country. RAIN DAMAGES FRUITS Prune Crop In Marion County Is Hard Hit. SALEM, Or.. Sept. 2S. (Special.) The rains of the last 24 hours have caused greater damage to the Marion county prune crop than the combined precipitation of the preceding six days, according to reports reaching the city today from rural districts. In some of the orchards In the low lands the yield is almost a complete loss, according to the growers, while owners of orchards on the elevations will not save more than half of their crop. . Buyers who have made a careful survey of the orchards of Marion county he past two or three days said the rains probably would reduce the prune crop more than one-half, while much of the fruit that would be salvaged would be of Inferior quality. ' UuUi '""news"1. 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Dr. and Mrs. George Hoeye of this city.' left this afternoon for Sa lem, where they are to enjoy their ai nual outing in their cottage In the grove of the Oregon state fair grounds. Mrs. Hoeye has attended every fair held in Salem, except one making 58 fairs she-has attended, and this is the 59th annual state fair. She well re members the first state fair she at tended with her father and mother, the late John and-Christine Gilmore, and since that time has been a fa miliar figure -on , the grounds, and each year the Hoeye cottage is visited by many pioneer residents of Marion county, where they are always given a royal -reception. Five years ago Dr. and Mrs. Hoeye had a cottage orected on the grounds and are well protected from the rains. The cottage is neatly furnished and most home-like. Mrs.' Hoeye, whose maiden name was Mary Gilmore, came across the Plains from Missouri with her parents in 1854. when 3 years of age, the fam ily having much exciting experience while making the long trip by ox team. While on the journey they were met. by Indians, who, at that time.- were giving the whites con siderable trouble. Clothing and othet belongings were taken from the set tlers, even to Mr. Giimore's hat, for when the family arrived at St. Helens he wa3 hatless. The only articles the Indians al lowed the settlers--o keep were the bedding and enough clothing to carry them through to their destination. , 0 NOW and illowed them also to retain their oxen ay which they were making the journey. After arriving at St. Helens, they remained there for a short time, later going to what is now Forest Grove, where the father of Mrs. Hoeye took up a donation land claim, and being dissatisfied with that section decided to move his family, and later took up a donation claim in ;he Herron neiKh torhood, about five miles from Salem Hera the little family settled, and met with many a hardship in dealing v. ith the half breeds, who had suc ceeded in driving -?iher whites off who had preceded them there, but de termined to remain, irt at work andi built a small cabin. Soon after the family had settled there, the half breeds - commenced their antics, and each day or nitfht would gather near the littie cabin oc cupied by the Gilmore family, and threaten them. - Of tea times they would drive their horses to the door or windows of the cabin, and while perched upon. their backs would give renular war crtes Many a time a horse's head would appear Into tho window of the cabin and a wild-eyed Indian or half-breed rider would call out in jargon lan guage to the white family. Day after day this was kept up. un til finally they began making friends of the family, and often favored 1 he Gilmores. whiI-3 the Gilmore family in turn favored them. As years rolled by Mr. Gilmore and his family watched the growth of balem from a mere village to a lare city, and the trips made by Mrs. Hoeye bring back to memory the days spent ' in childhood.- and there are still many friends of those day: who call at the Hoeye cottage each year, while visiting the fair grounds, where many reminiscences are ex changed and eiijoye.l. Dr. T. L. Perkins-In Kaoe. Dr. T. Li. Perkins yesterday filed nominating petitions for city com missioner. Dr. Perkins served a short term as city commissioner, suc ceeding Dan Kellaher, who. it is ex pected, will soon file as a nominee for mayor. W XJUJ w XJ ' ' ' ...I I II MM , , , I ALIBI rLtfl IS MUllUSSll FOR CLOCK THEFT ROY LESLIE GETS 120 DAYS. Attempted Explanation of Posses sion of Timepiece Vails to Im press Judge KoMimn. Roy Leslie, ehargred with stealing: a clock from the lobby of the Merchants' hotel, 52 North Third street, attempted a ia.r-fetched alibi in municipal court yesterday morning-, but his explana tions were cut short by Municipal Judfje Rossman, who sentenced Les lie to 120 days in jail. According to K. Nakata, Japanese proprietor of the hotel, Leslie rented a room at the hotel late in the evening.- The'clock was on the wall at 1 o'clock, but at 2 o'clock it was pone. Leslie was stopped on the street by Patrolman Fair at 3 A. M. as he was proceeding up Third street with" the clock under his arm. Leslie told the patrolman that another man had of fered him ,f5 cents to take the clock up to Thirteenth and Hoyt streets. Fair accompanied Leslie and the clock to the alleged rendezvous and waited two hours, but the "other man failed to appear and Leslie was es corted to the police station. Leslie held to his original story in court, but to no avail. The clock, which was introduced as evidence, had stopped at 2 A. M.- TJanVor Rallies From Operation. Isaac Hunt, vice-president of the Ladd & Tilton bank, who was oper ated on Friday morning at St. Vin cent's hospital by Dr. C. G. Sabin, following a serious attack of acute appendicitis, was reported last niprht to be tn a favorable condition. He was resting- easy, according to the hospital report. Read The Oreja-onian classified ads PLAYING